Biography
Thomas Jasper was a thirty-five-year-old Black worker held in the Huntsville city jail on an accusation of annoying a white girl that the newspaper said his employer engineered after Jasper demanded his wages. The June 19 report says two white men took him from his cell on Tuesday; he remained missing, and police admitted believing he had been lynched. The International Labor Defense challenged the police account that the men broke into an unguarded jail and demanded an investigation. The disappearance and suspected killing are attributed to the contemporary account; no confirmed death date or measured custody total is inferred. Source: https://www.marxists.org/history/usa/pubs/dailyworker/1930/v07-n148-NY-jun-20-1930-DW-LOC.pdf#page=5
